Meeting Information

February 2013 Newsletter

SUG-TX February Meeting: Building iPad and iPhone apps with Appeon for PowerBuilder

Future SUG-TX Meetings

Using WordPress To Rebuild The SUGTX.ORG Website

Join the SUG-TX LinkedIn Group

Database & Developer Digest Blog

New Benefit: Complimentary ASUG Membership

Sybase Training Schedule

1) SUG-TX February Meeting: Building iPad and iPhone apps with Appeon for PowerBuilder

The Sybase Users’ Group of Texas will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, February 26th, 2013. The presentation will be on the Appeon Mobile platform, which is in Beta testing and allows for development of iPhone and iPad applications using PowerBuilder.

The Sybase User’s Group of Texas recently finalized a rewrite of its website www.sugtx.org. The site has been completely rebuilt using leading web technologies, including WordPress, commercial-grade WordPress templates, and WordPress widgets. The goal of this effort was to improve the content and maintainability of the SUGTX.ORG site. Visit www.sugtx.org and let us know what you think about it.

4) Join the SUG-TX LinkedIn Group

The Sybase Users’ Group of Texas has a group in LinkedIn. If you wish to join, submit a request. You can find the group by searching for “Sybase Texas” in the groups directory. Contact secretary@sugtx.org if you have any questions.

5) Database & Developer Digest Blog

Check out the Database & Developer Digest Blog by Adrian Bridgwater at www.isug.com. One of his latest blogs talks about SAP’s Business Information Warehouse. Bridgwater states “SAP likes to refer to SAP BW (in its shorter acronym-based form) as a matter of course, often without fully defining the technology.

Here is a nice, short, easily digestible definition of this software.

The reporting, analysis, and interpretation of business data is of central importance to a company in guaranteeing its competitive edge, optimizing processes and enabling it to react quickly and in line with the market and this is where SAP BW sits.

“As a core component of SAP NetWeaver, the SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) provides data warehousing functionality, a business intelligence platform, and a suite of business intelligence tools that enable businesses to attain these goals.”

“Relevant business information from productive SAP applications and all external data sources can be integrated, transformed, and consolidated in SAP BW with the toolset provided. SAP BW provides flexible reporting and analysis tools to support you in evaluating and interpreting data, as well as facilitating its distribution. Businesses are able to make well-founded decisions and determine target-orientated activities on the basis of this analysis.” Learn more at www.isug.com.

6)New Benefit: Complimentary ASUG Membership

Effective February 7th, ISUG-TECH Gold Members in the US & Canada can receive complimentary membership in ASUG – the Americas SAP User Group. ISUG-TECH and ASUG are partnering together to ensure that members in both organization can leverage the best of both worlds! Follow the ISUG Member’s Blog at www.isug.com and be the first to know about more upcoming changes.

Do you have suggestions for our group? Would you like to present your Sybase solutions to the Sybase Users’ Group of Texas? The group is always looking for compelling presentations for our monthly meetings. Let us hear them!

Please forward this newsletter to anyone interested in learning more about Sybase products. To be added to or removed from the SUG-TX mailing list, subscribe to the mailing list at the SUG-TX Community on the My.ISUG.com website. Contact secretary@sugtx.org if you have any questions.

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Welcome

SUGTX began in 1992 as a “chartered” Local User Group (LUG) of the International Sybase User Group (ISUG) and in that capacity, we urge you to also join ISUG to take advantage of the benefits of membership.

We are also the Sybase Technologies SIG for the Houston Area League of PC Users (HAL-PC), which is now the world’s largest PC user group. HAL-PC graciously provides access to its facilities for our meetings.